The RAZR-cat?

Are you perchance referring to the RAZR knock-off:
"Motorola announced today that it has reached agreement in a lawsuit filed in January against Korean manufacturer KBT Mobile Company, Ltd. for infringements of patents, trademarks and designs for the acclaimed Motorola RAZR mobile phone. With the settlement, KBT has agreed to discontinue all manufacturing and sales of RAZR look-alikes. Motorola had filed the lawsuit upon learning of KBT's attempts to sell RAZR look-alikes in Asia."
- Telecoms Korea
Or just in general? The Koreans are willing to make knock-offs, but I think that in general they do a pretty good job of creating new ideas, too. SK Telecom, for example, has an R&D department of over 500. I'd be surprised if Verizon Wireless had over 20.
The Koreans actually aren't known for "stealing" ideas at all, in fact, we've often talked about how they have to constantly PAY for using foreign IP, and those payments are huge.
ex: US$ 2.7 Billion to Qualcomm since 1997!!
see:
http://news.techdirt.com/news/wireless/article/4550
Are you possibly confusing South Korea with China?